California Commission Approves Energy Storage Contract for SCE

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing efforts to ensure summer energy reliability and support a healthy environment, approved an energy storage contract for Southern California Edison (SCE) to come online by Aug. 1, 2022.The CPUC authorized SCE to enter into a US$1.226 billion, 537.5 MW engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance energy storage contract with Ameresco, Inc. The energy storage projects will be sited at three existing SCE substations: 225 MW at Springvale Substation in Big Creek-Ventura, 200 MW at Hinson Substation in the Los Angeles Basin, and 112.5 MW at Etiwanda Substation in the Los Angeles Basin.Prior CPUC Decisions directed the state’s investor-owned utilities to procure incremental capacity beyond the current 15% resource adequacy planning reserve margin to serve peak and net peak demand in 2021 and 2022, with a preference…

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